A letter to my Internet friends

A letter by Leo Reynolds

Dear Internet friends,

I think you’re swell.

But please cease and desist pumping every single Twitter update, Flickr photo, blog entry, comment on your blog entries, YouTube video posting, comment on other people’s blog entries you made, Delicious link, comment someone made on a post you made 3 years ago about some web service that doesn’t exist anymore, rss feed, and live streaming video update on what you are currently eating/drinking into every single social media tool on the planet that we are linked with.

Feed your Twitter updates into Facebook; everyone does that. But for the sake of humanity — end it there.

There’s this fantastic thing called FriendFeed that you can dump your whole life stream of links into and we can be friends there. I can marvel at all the fantastic things you do/eat/drink there.

Or if you must turn a fire hose on innocent bystanders, follow Kottke’s advice and offer a ‘real friends’ profile and a ‘fire hose/marketing/spam’ profile. I’ll take the former.

Please stop spamming me or we’re not going to be friends anymore.

Thanks,
Will

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Published:
08.27.08 / 12am
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cool stuff, social networking, uncool stuff
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